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balanced diet

n. A diet consisting of foods from all food groups.

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balanced diet

n. a diet that contains adequate amounts of all the necessary nutrients required for healthy growth and activity

Usage examples of "balanced diet".

She ate a healthy, well-balanced diet, and didn't think about food all that much.

Apparently, prairie folk have little concern for a balanced diet, because no fresh fruits or vegetables seem to be sold here, only a variety of packaged goods.

Cereals and pulses together thus provide many of the ingredients of a balanced diet.

I know you hunter types would prefer to go for the meat but these can be just as important to a properly balanced diet.

The foods were nonperishable and constituted a more-or-less-balanced diet.

When she did eat, she touched only nutritious food, a more well balanced diet than at any time in her life.